“THE greatest danger the individual has to dread,” said Dr. Murray, “is the inordinate activity of the soul with its powers of mind and will.” This danger is intensified a thousand-fold at the present time, through the advance made by those who term themselves “Researchers” in Psychic Science, having led multitudes into knowledge of the hitherto undreamt of forces latent in human nature. The danger to the Christian desirous of walking after the Spirit, and of being a channel for the outflow of the Spirit of God, is very real, for even when a man becomes regenerate, and has the life of God in his spirit, through ignorance he may be using psychic-force, even in his mission work for God. This may account for the transient results in Missions more than we know.

But now let us endeavor to get a bird’s-eye view of the dangers which we are attempting to point out under the term “soul-force.” It is remarkable that in these closing days of the Age, the book of Genesis should be so much contested by the devil, in his endeavor to overthrow its authority. The reason undoubtedly is that it not only contains the basic truth of the Fall, and of the gospel of redemption, but it also holds the key to all the problems of the present time.

It is so in the present instance. As we have pointed out already, the gilded bait offered to Eve in the temptation in Eden was “Ye shall be as God”—which was the very purpose in the heart of God in His Creation of man. The point we need to grasp is this: (1) That the very attributes of the soul, now being brought to light by Psychical Research, were placed in the sinless Adam for the express purpose of their development in fellowship with, and for the purpose of God; (2) That the Tempter knew of these potentialities in the sinless Adam, and desired them brought into action under his control instead of God’s—hence the temptation to Eve; (3) That when Adam fell into awful separation in spirit from God, all these latent powers fell with him, and became open to the control of the Tempter.